When an ordinary minifigure named Emmet (Chris Pratt) is mistaken for the Master Builder that can save the universe, this big-screen adventure begins. With the aid of an old mystic, Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman), a tough young lady named Lucy (Elizabeth Banks) and Batman (Will Arnett), Emmet fights to defeat the evil tyrant, Lord Business (Will Ferrell), and stop his evil plan of destroying the universe by gluing it together.